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Sources say the judiciary committee may post another trove of WH-DOJ emails this afternoon.

Don’t let the crying Reagan distract you too much: The debut redesign issue of Time also has an old-fashioned magazine investigation on the way the U.S. military has used private security forces to, effectively, outsource the war. At least one Liberal bloggers liberal blogger famously derided these contractors as mercenaries who deserved …

First, a fashion note: Valerie’s hair looks fantastic (and in general so does she) but her blazer stripes moire badly on camera. SOLIDS, Val. Continuing the fashion commentary, there’s a woman in a hot pink blazer with a matching “impeach Bush now” t-shirt trying desperately to get on camera.

As for substance: The detailed story of how …

Sorry I didn’t get to this yesterday, because it certainly caught my eye. Jake Tapper cornered Hillary about Pace’s “homosexuality-is-immoral” comments and this is the best she could do:

“General Pace has clarified his remarks, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is not working,” she said. “We are being

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Sununu becomes first Republican lawmaker to call for AG’s resignation. I doubt he’ll be the last. (Man, I bet Hagel is pissed.)

UPDATE: An editorial note, for editors: The AG scandal reminds us of just how pernicious the passive voice can be. “Mistakes were made,” “There were mistakes,” etc.: Without an actor, there can be no accountability.

The International Association of Fire Fighters held their presidential forum today, one of those cattle calls/panderthons that MSNBC usually builds a whole day of programming around. The newsiest thing to come out of it happened last week, when it got out that the IAFF had disinvited/invited Giuliani, who didn’t want to come anyway. …

To follow up on Jay’s Dan Bartlett post: MSNBC kept talking over Bartlett (and I couldn’t find the presser on CSPAN), so I really only got the gist of it but it sounded like the admin was taking the “they’re political appointees, we can do what we want with them” line (From what I can tell, this is not necessarily a standard …

I confess that when he started, I believed he was going to announce his resignation — solely based on how choked up he sounded. I guess he just cries easily.

He’s taking responsibility for the firings. Except that he totally didn’t know about it! 100,000 employees! He can’t know everything!

P.S.: Nice post, Jay.

UPDATE: Betting has started.

18 percent approval. Wow. Just… wow. If he had feelings, I’m sure they’d be hurt by this.

UPDATE: I used to joke that Cheney was so disliked he was actually less popular than torture. I have been making this joke for so long, I actually had forgotten the numbers. (My memory being Libby-like in the first place.) Turns out saying that …

Peter Pace, the Tim Hardaway of generals:

“I believe homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts,” Pace said in a wide-ranging discussion with Tribune editors and reporters in Chicago. “I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in

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Don’t you dare call them a do-nothing Congress now!

NOVEL DAIS SEATING ASSIGNMENTS ADOPTED TO REFLECT NON-PARTISANSHIP OF COMMITTEE

WASHINGTON – Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., took their commitment to non-partisanship to an alternate

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Hagel’s big announcement this morning? Apparently, he’s still maybe possibly kinda thinking about potentially running.

Also, the war is bad.

UPDATE: From MSNBC: “One of the most bizarre political statement’s I’ve ever heard.” Guess he sat out the Perot cycle.

The real losers here are the press, who got play-ay-ed. Shows to go you …

A correction just sent out by the White House to their transcript of a press gaggle by Stephen Hadley, Dan Bartlett, and Tony Snow:

Corrects comedy to comity

Specifically, in the uncorrected version:

BARTLETT: So what this is, is a political compromise in the Democratic caucus of the House, aimed at bringing comedy to their internal

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